On 30 Mar 2010 at 23:08, Howey, Henry wrote: > Use the postscript for insertion into WORD documents. They're big but > dpi is a function of the printer, not the object,
Well, PostScript (EPS or PS) works fine if you have a PostScript printer for output, but most Windows users do not, so it's not helpful to recommend that. You *are* correct, though, that EPS/PS graphics make dpi irrelevant, as they scale to whatever output dpi you choose, depending on the output device. But for non-scalable graphics, dpi *does* matter. 150dpi is fine for onscreen display, but is terrible for printing. 300dpi is the lowest satisfactory dpi for graphics, I'd say, but for things like music, I don't think it's high enough (you'll get jaggies on beams, for instance, and if you resize in your target program, you may lose staff lines; that's dependent on the resizing algorithm used by the program you've inserted the graphic into, though; MS Word is actually extremely good with that). > Try to size close to actual size. Also, breal multi-line images into > smaller pieces for good pageflow. "Actual size?" What does that mean on a computer screen? -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
